If I could re-write just one scene from Black Panther, it would be this:
Killmonger: “Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the slave ships.”
T’Challa: “You speak of slavery with your dying breath. I do not know if any of your
mother’s ancestors were slaves or not, but I do know your father’s ancestry, and HE was
never a slave. His father was never a slave and none of their ancestors were ever slaves.
In fact, most of them were kings of Wakanda, just like you. Their lives had meaning and
stood for a purpose and so did yours. I will make sure that you are buried here in
Wakanda and that no one ever forgets, “the purpose of your life.”
Killmonger: “And what was that?”
T’Challa: “You saw the world as irredeemably evil. So evil that you were willing to risk
the lives of the people of Wakanda, people whom you had never even met… to force
every human on Earth… to bow to you: to live their lives, as YOU saw fit. I am sure
you convinced yourself that you would be a good and wise King, but it is very clear to
me, that you would never have been satisfied until every person on Earth was YOUR
slave. I am glad that I was the one who stopped you from enslaving the world, and I will
make sure that no one… ever… forgets that.”